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I dare say Hideaki Anno had better understanding of Hermeticism than Nasu, but that's not exactly a feat.

Let me record all of humanity on a tablet, because emerald tablet, get it, even though that whole stasis stuff is entirely unrelated. I mean you could probably interpret Zepia as a gnostic yeeeting against the inevitability set up by the Demiurge, but DoO's acceptance is not very gnostic.

Something something explaining the laws of universe something something computers. This is Sion's character you're welcome, nobody thought about where it is that metaphysics become actual physics because I wouldn't waste my time reading the Kybalion and Nasu sure didn't

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I mean Nasu has very solid understanding of Matter of Britain and I'll give him that, but he's straight incapable of interpreting western magical traditions without bringing zen buddhism into it.

I wouldn't say that. His usage of the Armanen runes shows no sign of Eastern esoterism (at least that I'm aware of), for instance.
(I really wish he hadn't used the Armanen runes, though. Von List and his ilk are a stain on Norse studies.)

I won't deny his contributions to things that happen behind the scenes, but I will express disappointment in him not showing any indication that he's working on my theoretical, ideal, Type-Moon's Renaissance-inducing new IP.

McJon01: We all know that the real reason Archer would lose to Rider is because the events of his own Holy Grail War left him with a particular weakness toward "older sister" types.

I dare say Hideaki Anno had better understanding of Hermeticism than Nasu, but that's not exactly a feat.

Let me record all of humanity on a tablet, because emerald tablet, get it, even though that whole stasis stuff is entirely unrelated. I mean you could probably interpret Zepia as a gnostic yeeeting against the inevitability set up by the Demiurge, but DoO's acceptance is not very gnostic.

Something something explaining the laws of universe something something computers. This is Sion's character you're welcome, nobody thought about where it is that metaphysics become actual physics because I wouldn't waste my time reading the Kybalion and Nasu sure didn't

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I mean Nasu has very solid understanding of Matter of Britain and I'll give him that, but he's straight incapable of interpreting western magical traditions without bringing zen buddhism into it.

Admittedly, there was a lot of interaction in the Mongol era between Hermeticism and Buddhist tradition, with the latter definitely influencing the former and maybe vice versa?

Originally Posted by Deathhappens

Really, all 3 of the romances in F/SN are 'for want of a nail' kind of situations.

Originally Posted by forumghost

You mean because Shirou winds up falling for the first of the three that he Nailed?

Originally Posted by Tobias

I speak for the majority of important people* *a category comprised entirely of myself

Admittedly, there was a lot of interaction in the Mongol era between Hermeticism and Buddhist tradition, with the latter definitely influencing the former and maybe vice versa?

I admit I don't know the first thing about Hermeticism, personally, but I would wager that neither did the Mongols. And traders plying the Silk Road are more likely to have been concerned with proliferating profit-bearing ideas (gunpowder, for instance) than obscure -even for its time- occultism.

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I mean, I've never heard of a Buddhist presence in Europe at the time, either.

Originally Posted by I3uster

It's like with centaur girls, you're fucking a horse. Sure the human part is the one that moans but your dick is in the horse, no way around it.

The Mongols were well aware of Hermeticism, Neo-Pythagoreanism and other esoteric knowledge, particularly since they sponsored such intellectuals in their courts and in fact used it as a means of sovereignty. Also, the interactions between Hermeticism/Abrahamic esoteric knowledge and Buddhism happened primarily in Mongol Persia and China, in the Islamic world, but even then, esoteric knowledge in Europe and the Islamic world was one and the same for the most part. I could go into a whole lot more detail, since I just learned all of this this semester under a professor who is one of the leading experts in the early modern Eastern Islamic world, but I won't for now.

Originally Posted by Deathhappens

Really, all 3 of the romances in F/SN are 'for want of a nail' kind of situations.

Originally Posted by forumghost

You mean because Shirou winds up falling for the first of the three that he Nailed?

Originally Posted by Tobias

I speak for the majority of important people* *a category comprised entirely of myself

One book about the interactions between Buddhism and Islam that my prof recommended was Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road by Johan Elverskog, and I actually attended a talk the latter spoke in, and he seemed quite knowledgeable. Also, any other topics you might be interested in?

Originally Posted by Deathhappens

Really, all 3 of the romances in F/SN are 'for want of a nail' kind of situations.

Originally Posted by forumghost

You mean because Shirou winds up falling for the first of the three that he Nailed?

Originally Posted by Tobias

I speak for the majority of important people* *a category comprised entirely of myself

Thanks! I recall hearing about a Tantric Buddhist Guru who taught a group of Muslims by appropriating the latter's vocabulary (i.e. Allah as a word for Buddha nature/Emptiness), it may very well be from that book. Anything that deals with interactions between spiritual/occultist traditions of the East and the West probably interests me to some degree or another, so anything that particularly stands out to you as informative, I'd appreciate.